“When I was on a book tour last year, I saw a sign in a bookstore in a seaside town in Maine that was carefully drawn with popular symbols of coastal living and these words were entwined: Hope anchors the… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
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“When I was on a book tour last year, I saw a sign in a bookstore in a seaside town in Maine that was… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls”… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“I understood your hope came not from some belief in the triumph of good or the kindness of politicians and bureaucrats. Your hope came… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“Your indomitable spirit survived whatever the mainstream culture threw at you, whether it was a malnourishing diet of endless corn as a child or… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“I knew I lived in a country founded on the murder of the body and the spirit of others. Native American nations were decimated… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
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